A riot is the language of the unheard.

Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.